Monique wrote:Bourne wrote:Monique wrote:Wild wrote:i prefer it like this now get working get promotion like every other businesses.
Most businesses will crash when they take the reckless approach and no company can afford not to pay it's employees or people under contract or they will be in trouble soon.
What you all seem to forget is that the PLAYERS are the sport/game biggest asset and that they have to be treated correctly in order to give it their best. Without them there is NO sport. There are plenty of business minded persons who can organise a tournament if they put their mind to it. Becoming a top player asks for loads of talent and many, many years of hard work.
Currently a youngster in their first year as a pro will sometimes have to win 3 matches before getting anything, and it's a pittance. That's not correct. That means that making it as a pro might in fact depend whether your family is well-off rather than on your talent and hard work. Especially with the ridiculous starting points it's extremely hard to climb, even for the gifted.
There'll always be enough players, if these can't hack it then stuff them, eventually people will be prepared to do it for free.
That's ridiculous, sorry! They can't do it for free, with a full calendar, unless they are millionaires who don't need to work for a living. And in addition in our society, like it or not - and I don't like it - the value and prestige of things is more often than not measured by the money attached to it. "Cheap" tournaments devaluate the sport in the eyes of the public, of the sponsors and of the broadcasters and eventually harm it.
Some here need a serious reality check!
yeh thats a bit daft Bourne to just say, ah well sod this batch of talented youngsters, if they havent got enough money to remain a pro then sod them, another 32 young mugs will happily come along for the same punishment.
the fact remains that 6million prize money on this tour is a joke even if its heading in the right direction.
its still only 6 million quid between 100 players = 60k average or 1000 quid a week, this being before tax and expenses so not a great deal.
its a bad comparison but look at the likes of football with 1,000s and 1,000s of players who make a living and there will be lots of players who earn more in a year than the whole 100 snooker pros do combined, so you can see that the snooker pros are the poor relations in sport.
Snookerfan, Wild and others dont seem to care how low prize money is and how that affects how prestigious a tournament is etc. For me the events funds are way too low in many cases, especially the Asian rankers where WSA havent really tapped into the supposed massive interest and growth there yet, with paltry prize funds still in existence with only really the semi finalists, runner up and winner earning anything remotely decent from there.
with all the expansion and increased tour, id really think we should have a tour worth 10million this year to be honest.
it is a work in progress though and i expect Hearn to deliver